Upterix

Services

Six service lines. Four pricing models. One entry product.

Six service lines, scoped for hyperscale and AI-grade campuses across MENA, the EU, and North America. Every Upterix engagement closes a specific failure mode at the design—execution interface — the seam where Tier compliance, capital cost, and time-to-power silently bleed. Pick one. Or start with a Rapid Audit, and let the data recommend.

  • Scale50 MW — 2 GW campuses
  • GeoMENA · EU · North America
  • AuditHyperscaler tenant-grade
  • StanceVendor-neutral · NDA-first
  • CoverInsurance-backed where appropriate
Portfolio ledger · rolling across recent engagements
  • $4.2M

    Avg per engagement — quantified in dollars, not narrative.

  • 6.8wk

    Catch in design vs. in commissioning.

  • 0

    Top-10 is the headline. The long tail is yours.

  • 0×

    1× design → 6× build → 18× commissioning.

Lifecycle wayfinder

Where are you in the project?

Six service lines map to six phases of the build lifecycle. Click a phase to see which line fits — and what it actually changes when applied at that point. The same project can use one line at one phase and a different line later; most programmes do.

Phase 01

Pre-feasibility

The land is signed before engineering checks happen. Power, water, climate, fibre, and regulatory pathway are all still negotiable — and the variance in lifetime capital cost between two sites of the same per-hectare price routinely exceeds nine figures. Catch the unbuildable here, on a five-page deck, not eighteen months later in execution.

The six lines

Pick one. Or start with a Rapid Audit and let us recommend.

The six lines are sequential by build lifecycle, but rarely bought that way. Operators enter through the failure mode that hurts most this quarter — and expand from there. Active across MENA, the EU, and North America, each line runs on a named methodology and ships against the same evidence standard a hyperscaler tenant would apply to its own audit.

How our work is structured

Three ways to engage. Pick the one that fits.

Most consulting firms sell hours. We sell three engagement modes — none of them a gate to the others. Any of the six service lines can be bought directly, against a defined outcome and pricing model, without first running an audit. The Rapid Audit is the entry-priced option for operators who'd rather a recommendation before committing to scope; the Strategic Retainer fits multi-site programmes that need an embedded senior engineer. Choose the mode that matches the decision in front of you.

  1. Entry

    Rapid Audit

    USD 5,000 · 5 business days · fixed fee. Top-10 Risk Register, executive briefing, and a costed mitigation plan — written so your investment committee can read it without translation. Optional starting point, not a prerequisite.

  2. Core

    Six service lines

    Site Selection, Design Review, Layout & DfMA, BIM & Clash, Constructability, Tender Review. Two-to-eight-week depth, scoped per engagement. Fixed-fee, outcome-priced, or day-rate by scope — buy any line directly.

  3. Strategic

    Owner's Engineer

    Senior engineer embedded inside your governance — typically one day per week. Programme-level technical authority over gate verdicts, RFI escalation, and tender oversight. Monthly retainer, built for owners running multi-site programmes from 200 MW to 2 GW.

Six service lines · in depth

What each line actually changes.

Below — one block per line, in lifecycle order. The methodology, the narrative behind it, and the four-to-five things the engagement actually does differently than an EoR self-check, a PMC overlay, or a hyperscaler tenant's own audit pack. Use these to scope a conversation; the detail pages carry the full evidence trail.

USQI™82 / 100
POWERWATERCLIMATEFIBREREGS
3 sites · 5 dimensionsSHORTLIST
Line 01 · USQI™ · Site Selection

Engineering checks before procurement signs the land.

Most site decisions are made on commercial criteria — per-hectare price, transaction speed, who the seller knows. Engineering is checked retroactively, and the unbuildable surfaces eighteen months later when grid upgrades, water-allocation gaps, and climate-envelope assumptions land in execution at six-figure mitigation cost.

USQI™ runs the engineering test before the LOI. Twelve dimensions scored against your operator standard. Output is an investment-committee-grade shortlist that survives the seller's data room and the anchor tenant's audit — in the same document.

  • Twelve scored dimensions — power · water · climate · fibre · grid · latency · carbon · regulation · local content · hazards · logistics · labour
  • Anchor-tenant procurement-framework scan (IKTVA · ICV · NCA in MENA, EU local-content equivalents, US tax-credit qualification)
  • Submarine-cable redundancy and sovereignty-boundary audit — single-points-of-failure surfaced before LOI
  • AI-grade · DLC-readiness scored from line one, not bolted on after the procurement memo
  • One decision-grade document sized for IC, board, and hyperscale-tenant audit pack — three audiences, one set of numbers
Deliverables
Site comparison matrix, risk register, recommended shortlist.
Pricing
Fixed-fee
Typical
3–5 weeks
UDGR™0 findings
SHEET A-201 · WHITESPACE
Top-10 sealed · WK 4SWEEP
Line 02 · UDGR™ · Design Review

Find every failure mode before the contractor does.

EoR self-checks miss the failures that hurt most. No design office is rewarded for finding its own mistakes, and no internal reviewer will quantify findings against the originator's professional record. The class of failures that survives self-check shows up in commissioning at 18× the cost of catching them in design.

UDGR™ — four sequential gates, twelve scored dimensions — is the only audit motion that operates on the cheap side of the cost cliff. Every finding maps to a row in the Top-10 Risk Register, every row quantified in dollars and weeks, and every row sourced from a drawing, calculation, or specification, not a narrative.

  • Independent senior-engineer review of MEP, cooling, electrical topology, mechanical, and structural
  • Four-gate UDGR™ verdicts — Programme · Architecture · Field · Compliance
  • Top-10 Risk Register ranked by dollars × probability × weeks-at-risk
  • Cost-of-late-discovery curve quantified per finding — 1× design → 6× build → 18× commissioning
  • Hyperscaler-tenant audit-pack format — same document survives IC, anchor tenant, and contractor cross-examination
Deliverables
Top-10 Risk Register, gate-review report, costed mitigation plan.
Pricing
Fixed-fee · Outcome-priced
Typical
2–6 weeks
UBI™0% prefab
GANTRY · DfMAL6 · PREFABL5PREFABL4SITEL3PREFABL2SITEL1PREFABPREFAB60%↑ +23BUILDABILITY
Modular assembly · L5LIFT
Line 03 · UBI™ · Layout & DfMA

Modularisation calibrated to the crew that will build it.

Reference designs assume a contractor pool that doesn't always exist on your site. A prefab share that works in the Nordics fails in Riyadh; modular logistics that flow in Northern Virginia stall on a Saudi customs queue. Layout calibrated to drawings often shows up to a crew that can't build it.

UBI™ — the Upterix Buildability Index — calibrates modularisation share, prefab strategy, and whitespace layout against the actual contractor pool you'll deliver against. Output is a 0—100 buildability score and a layout-options comparator your tender team can defend in front of the EoR.

  • Modularisation-spectrum positioning — your design plotted against typical, leader, and frontier players in the region
  • Whitespace layout calibrated to install sequence, crane reach, and trade-flow logistics
  • Layout-options comparator — three to five candidate designs scored side by side on cost, schedule, and crew-fit
  • Prefab vs site-built trade-off mapped against schedule slip, capital cost, and regional labour scarcity
  • Tier-1 contractor pool fit-test against the proposed buildability profile, before tender packs are issued
Deliverables
DfMA strategy, layout options, modularisation roadmap, UBI™ score.
Pricing
Fixed-fee · Outcome-priced
Typical
4–8 weeks
UFCM™0 clashes
MEPELECCOOLCLASH
3 disciplines · federatedRESOLVE
Line 04 · UFCM™ · BIM & Clash

Federated coordination that survives field handover.

Most BIM execution plans get written by the modeller. The contractor inherits them, the trade contractors fight them, and the field RFI volume tells the truth six months later. The model passes its review, and the project still spends two months in coordination war.

UFCM™ — the Upterix Federated Coordination Matrix — maps every discipline, every phase, and every decision authority before the modeller starts. Coordination isn't a model review; it's a governance contract between disciplines, with field handover as the actual standard.

  • Federated coordination matrix scoped to your contractor org chart, not a generic LOD ladder
  • Discipline-by-discipline clash resolution with field-handover acceptance criteria written by partners who've taken the handover
  • BIM execution plan written for the contractor that will inherit it, not the modeller that wrote it
  • LOD progression mapped to gate verdicts — no "LOD 400 by tender" mythology
  • RFI-volume forecast against discipline maturity — surfaced before tender close, not after award
Deliverables
BIM Execution Plan, federated model, clash log, field handover pack.
Pricing
Fixed-fee · Retainer · Outcome-priced
Typical
6-16 weeks
RHM™WK 0 peak
RFI DENSITYLOW → PEAKPEAKW1W2W3W4W5W6W7MEPELECCOOLSTRCFIREINTERVENEINTERVENTION · 3 WEEKS · 5 TRADES
5 disciplines × 7 weeksINTERVENE
Line 05 · UBI™ + RHM™ · Constructability

Drawings tested against the install sequence, crew, and crane.

Drawings leave the office without leaving the office. Engineer of Record optimises for issue; the site optimises for build; the gap between is where 60—80% of avoidable rework lives — and no one on the org chart owns it.

Constructability Review tests every detail against install sequence, crew skill, access logistics, and crane reach — the variables the EoR cannot reasonably know. UBI™ scoring plus the RHM™ RFI Heat Map maps phase-by-phase risk before the field discovers it.

  • Drawing-by-drawing buildability translation against the actual install sequence
  • Crew-skill atlas across MENA, EU, and North America — regional scarcity scored 0—100 by trade
  • Access-logistics and crane-reach audit conducted before mobilisation, not after
  • RHM™ RFI Heat Map — phase × discipline × predicted RFI density, with intervention windows marked
  • 0—100 UBI™ score that survives EoR challenge and contractor cross-examination on the same call
Deliverables
UBI™ readout (0-100), redline pack ranked by sequencing impact, RHM™ heat map, pre-construction issue log.
Pricing
Fixed-fee · Retainer · Outcome-priced
Typical
3-6 weeks
TQI™0 / 100
ABIDDER
88TQI
A1·A6
DBIDDER
82TQI
A1·A6
BBIDDER
74TQI
A1·A6
CBIDDER
51TQI
A1·A6
4 bidders · 6 axesAWARD
Line 06 · TQI™ · Tender Review

Read every contractor like a hyperscaler tenant would.

Bid evaluations live or die on commercial terms. The technical read is rushed, the bidder's narrative is taken on faith, and capability claims survive procurement intact. Six months into the build, the gap between bid promise and delivery reality is paid for in change orders and contingency.

TQI™ — the Tender Qualification Index — reads every contractor submission the way a hyperscaler tenant would audit your delivery: line by line, against defined terms, exclusions, capability claims, and programme assumptions, with each axis scored 0—100 and a verdict of award · clarify · decline.

  • TQI™ scoring across six axes — defined terms, exclusions, capability claims, programme realism, supply chain, contractual posture
  • Programme-realism overlay — claimed weeks vs. realistic weeks, phase by phase, with driver attribution
  • Bid-qualification matrix with per-cell findings rendered as an evidence trail, not a verdict pull-quote
  • Both-sides-of-the-table read — senior partners have run Tier-1 contractor bids and know what the bidder didn't write down
  • Hyperscaler-tenant-audit-grade format — the same document survives IC, anchor-tenant verification, and contractor pushback
Deliverables
TQI™ readout, qualification register, risk-allocation heat-map, programme realism overlay, award memo + clarification questions.
Pricing
Fixed-fee · Retainer
Typical
1—4 weeks

Pricing

Four pricing models. Outcome-priced wherever the work has a defensible baseline.

Three of the four models are calibrated to the deliverable — not the engineer's clock. Outcome-priced is preferred where recovered value is measurable against an agreed baseline; fixed-fee, where scope fits on a single page. Day-rate exists for the seam between, and a monthly retainer covers embedded programme work.

  • Fixed-fee

    Scoped, time-boxed, written on one page. Used for the Rapid Audit, Site Selection, Tender Review, and bounded technical assessments.

  • Day-rate

    Senior-engineer time at transparent published rates. Used where scope is fluid — early-stage advisory and scope-defining sprints.

  • Outcome-priced

    A defined share of demonstrably saved cost or schedule, capped and verified against an agreed baseline. Used in Design Review, Layout & DfMA, and Constructability.

  • Retainer

    Monthly senior-engineer allocation. Used for embedded Owner's Engineer engagements across multi-site programmes.

Find your fit

Three questions. One recommendation.

Tell us where you are in the project, what's hurting most, and what scope you have to spend. We'll surface the line that closes that failure mode — or tell you to start with a Rapid Audit if the answer needs evidence before scope.

Step 1 of 3

Where are you in the project?

Pick the closest phase, even if you straddle two.

Not sure which line fits?

Start with a Rapid Audit. USD 5,000, five business days, a Top-10 Risk Register and a written recommendation on next steps. About two of three audits expand into a Layer 2 engagement inside sixty days — because the audit surfaces enough for the investment committee to act on it.